Smartphones

CES 2014: Monitoring a car’s systems — on your wrist

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Special connection: BMW i3 and the Samsung Galaxy Gear. BMW uses the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2014 in Las Vegas, the headline US fair which spotlights advances from across the world of digitalisation and connectivity, to present innovative previews of future developments and new applications for series-produced vehicles. The German premium carmaker unveiled a smartwach … Read more

Driverless cars, digital health care, robotics: Technology trends to watch in 2014

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Driverless cars, digital health care, robotics and the future of video distribution and consumption are the five areas that promise to have a dramatic impact on the $203 billion consumer electronics (CE) industry in 2014. These are “5 Technology Trends to Watch” identified by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), each year listing some of the … Read more

Microsoft to reinvent Nokia

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Microsoft announced its intent to purchase Nokia’s mobile phone business unit. Microsoft to acquire Nokia’s Devices & Services business, license Nokia’s patents and mapping services.    Microsoft Corporation and Finnish multinational communications and information technology corporation Nokia announced that the companies have decided to enter into a transaction whereby Microsoft will purchase substantially all of Nokia’s Devices … Read more

Twitter, the traveller’s megaphone

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The development of social media channels has led to new usages: new ways to travel, new interactions, new uses for smartphones, new expectations, new rhythms. Globe-trotters look to Twitter for travel tips, good deals, get directions or complain to local travel professionals, according to the findings of Allianz Global Assistance’s first #HELPME observatory. 65% of … Read more